Renewal Partners

Community Renewal brings together caring partners to make our world a home where every single child is safe and loved. Partnerships are vital to our work; true community renewal simply would not happen without them. Here you will find many of our partners - organizations, businesses, universities and other groups who support the work of CRI in many various ways. This is not an exhaustive list, but is representative of hundreds of CRI partners.

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Bossier Parish Community College is a thriving community college in Bossier City, La., with an enrollment of more than 7,000 students. Founded in 1966, the college offers a wide variety of degree programs for an active student body. BPCC entered into a partnership with CRI to become a model for all community colleges, incorporating all three CRI strategies. BPCC is promoting this partnership through a large mural placed on the windows of a downtown Shreveport building that will become the CRI National Center. Students have also helped with programs at the Friendship Houses. "The more we talk about it, the more it makes sense. This is comething that can be part of our legacy," said BPCC Chancellor Jim Henderson. 

Fuller Center for Housing is a non-profit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry dedicated to eliminating poverty housing worldwide. By forming partnerships with local organizations, The Fuller Center provides the structure, guidance and support that communities need to build and repair homes for the impoverished among them. The Fuller Center started its partnership with CRI in 2005, shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Through this partnership, the Allendale neighborhood in Shreveport has seen a total transformation, as more than 40 houses have been built there for hurricane evacuees and local residents who are making this once high-crime area into a safe and caring community.

Hewlett Packard is the world's largest information technology company, with revenue totaling $114.6 billion in fiscal 2009. HP operates in more than 170 countries and has about 304,000 employees worldwide. HP strives to be an economic, intellectual and social asset to each country and community in which it does business. Through its Global Citizenship Strategy, HP makes meaningful and lasting contributions to improve people’s lives and work. "We are not here just to make X billion in revenues," said Paul Ellingstad, social innovation director. "The question is: Have you made the world a better place?"

Red Ball Oxygen is a major supplier of welding equipment and supplies, industrial gases, medical gases and safety equipment. Founded in 1969, the company has expanded its operations to include Red Ball Technical Gas Services - a state-of-the-art ISO 17025:2005 accredited specialty gas laboratory, advanced robot automation department, a modern cylinder filling operation, a full-service welding equipment service center, a palletized cylinder distribution system, and 22 customer service branches servicing Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. Red Ball Oxygen sponsors the annual Maggie Lee Henson Celebration of Caring for Community Renewal.

Texas Christian University, with nearly 8,700 students on its campus in Fort Worth, Texas, is launching an innovative pilot program in partnership with CRI that will train university students on many campuses how to build safe and caring communities across the nation. The university will rolled out We Care TCU to encourage and actively promote intentional acts of caring among the student body and in the community. Future plans call for development of a RenewalCorps team of students formally trained in the CRi model and construction of a Friendship House near the campus.

Bridge Business Partners

Bridge Business Partners are caring businesses who make a financial commitment to help create a stronger, more sustainable community that is good for business and residents.

• Coyle Engineering Co.
• Dethloff & Associates Inc.
• Fast Signs
• FitzGerald Contractors
• Griggs Enterprise Inc.
• Guardian Alarms
• Harrison Paint Co.
• IM Wealth Care, LLC 
• Insty Prints
• Ivan Smith Furniture
• JP Morgan Chase & Co.
• KSLA News 12
• Permatox Pest Control
• Roadrunner Car Wash 
• Roberts Cherry & Company
• Ryan Walker Family Dentistry
• Software & Services, LLC
• Tom Wood/State Farm Insurance
• Whitlock's Plumbing Company
• Zocolos Neighborhood Eatery